OREANDA-NEWS. March 20, 2012. BM&FBOVESPA informs you that the equity options exercise today in the BOVESPA segment turned over BRL 6,409,430,360.00, of which BRL 6,047,601,200.00 in call options and BRL 361,829,160.00 in put options. Below are the options with the highest financial volumes in today’s exercise:

Vale PNA at BRL 40.00 per share turned over BRL 528,812,000.00 in call options;

Petrobras PN at BRL 23.83 per share turned over BRL 523,814,379.00 in call options;

Vale PNA at BRL 42.00 per share turned over BRL 332,577,000.00 in call options;

Vale PNA at BRL 38.00 per share turned over BRL 227,525,000.00 in call options;

and Vale PNA at BRL 41.00 per share turned over BRL 198,013,600.00 in call options.